Op ed: Individual Responsibility around Climate change is a Myth- so why should we live sustainably?
This generation is statistically a lot different to those preceding it. We’re drinking less, smoking less (although vaping may soon unfortunately prove to reverse that change) and we’re more socially conscious. Intuitively, this makes sense, although millennials have grown up with the same seemingly boundless access to information, gen-z were born into it. This is an immense privilege that doesn’t extend completely across all gen-z. After all, we are not a monolith, and our access to this boundless ocean of information is inhibited by our geographical circumstance, our economic class, our physical and mental ability, the list goes on. However, it seems that on the whole there is an expectation that so-called gen-zers should be making better life choices, after all, knowledge is power. And to quote a classic film (yes Spiderman is a classic): with great power comes great responsibility. Or does it? This presumption is based on the implication that we accept the premise, that this k...